if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.